Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress — The president has asked federal agencies to find solutions on their own. His message to lawmakers: We can do this without you. — President Obama is either fed up with Congress or he's testing his own administration's mettle. Or both.

Obama Moves Jobs Speech After Skirmish With Boehner — WASHINGTON — Any hopes that a kinder, gentler bipartisan Washington would surface once Congress returns after Labor Day were summarily dashed on Wednesday when President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner clashed over, of all things …

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls — For the first time this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry leads President Obama in a national Election 2012 survey. Other Republican candidates trail the president by single digits. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone …

New CNN Poll: 65% give Obama thumbs down on economy — Washington (CNN) - Only a third of all Americans approve of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy, according to a new national survey. — And with a CNN/ORC International Poll also indicating that more than three-quarters …

Ariz. GOP raffling off Glock gun — Arizona Republicans are fundraising by raffling off a Glock pistol, the same brand of gun used to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords just eight months ago. — On Aug. 26, the Pima County Republican Party sent out an online newsletter that described the raffle …

Perry can't exploit key weakness for Romney — AS RECENTLY as six months ago, Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination was widely thought to be doomed because, as governor of Massachusetts, he had signed a health care law strikingly similar to the one President Obama signed last year.

Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir — (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack on her integrity by former Vice President Dick Cheney in his just-published memoir. — Speaking in an interview with Reuters …

Is Obama Playing Rope-a-Dope? — Here was the headline on Yahoo from Wednesday night: Obama bows to Boehner on jobs speech. — I can tell you what any progressive who has been paying attention thought, “Oh boy, here we go again.” — President Obama has now changed the day of his address to Congress to accommodate the Republicans.

Iceland Exits — Iceland is no longer under an IMF program; here's the IMF report (pdf) pronouncing the adjustment program successful. Indeed. Iceland still has high unemployment and is a long way from a full recovery; but it's no longer in crisis, it has regained access to international capital markets …

Deputy mayor quit after being busted for domestic violence — The blizzard didn't bury him — roughing up his wife did. — Former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith — who drew sharp criticism for bungling the Christmas storm that shut down the city — actually resigned in disgrace after his wife …

LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE — Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were “gaps” in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New York Times.

How US firms profited from rendition flights — Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies — The scale of the CIA's rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail …

Howard Dean: Right On Foreign Medical Students — Justin Elliott has a kind of exposé piece in Salon about Howard Dean's post-DNC work as a de facto lobbyist and PR man for McKenna Long & Aldridge. Elliott's interest in the topic stems, I believe, from Dean's advocacy on behalf …

Michele Bachmann AWOL from N.H. — Bachmann's New Hampshire effort is led by state chairman Jeff Chidester, a radio host based in Rochester. In an interview, he told POLITICO he's received assurances from the campaign's national leadership that the candidate will be back in September …

Apple loses another unreleased iPhone (exclusive) — Cava22, the San Francisco bar where another unreleased iPhone apparently went missing. — In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar, CNET has learned.

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